First published in 1859, Adam Bede carried its readers back sixty years to the lush countryside of Eliot's native Warwickshire, and a time of impending change for England and the wider world.
His dalliance with the dairymaid has unforeseen consequences that affect the lives of many in their small rural community. Pretty Hetty Sorrel is loved by the village carpenter Adam Bede, but her head is turned by the attentions of the fickle young squire, Arthur Donnithorne. 'Our deeds carry their terrible nsequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves.'
Comprehensive notes identify literary and historical allusions and evidence of Eliot's wide reading.The Introduction discusses the novel's historical context and some of the main issues it explores: the role of work, class, and relations between the sexes, and Eliot's belief that the artist's duty is 'the faithful representing of commonplace things'.Includes George Eliot's journal entry on the real-life origins of the story and the composition of the novel, and broadsheet accounts of the execution of Mary Voce, whose story provided the germ of the novel.This is the first edition based on Eliot's final revision of the novel in 1861, using the definitive Clarendon text. Eliot's first full-length novel, Adam Bede paints a powerful portrait of rural life, seduction, faith, and redemption.
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